Bloody aquisitions by Drew Hayes

Disclamer this book is the third in the series. If you haven't read the previous check out my review of the first one here.

Plot

A new clan of vampires (the house of Turva) are moving to Winslow. Meeting the local big wigs and investigating any vampires who lives there. Having heard rumors about Fred and his exploits they are naturally curious. Except the rumors are though not wrong certainly taken out if context. Fred, who so far has had very limited and mostly violent interactions with other vampires, are not happy about this development. He is even considering leaving Winslow to avoid them. 

Even so unlife goes and between helping friends move, and work he is quite busy. Apparently there was a severe lack of accountants and now Fred and his assistant are swamped with more work than they can handle. 

Then The House of Turva asks for a meeting.

My thoughts

Again this is a collection of shorter stories these ones however are more connected than the earlier books which is why I'm describing the overarching plot rather than the first story like I've done for the others. The second story is basically just the gang traveling to a small town and Fred considering moving there. It works well in the book as a whole but not as a stand alone story.

Like the others this expand on the bodybuilding mostly it give some more insight to how vampires work. Fred who haven't really met one before (unless one count Quinn trying to kill him) and hadn't realized how out of the norm he was. Now we see just how ruthless vampire clans can be and we get a bit more insight into why vampires in particularly are feared and mistrusted. It does do this in a rather nuanced way. It could easily have gone the route of all vampires are evil except for Fred. Instead it introduced Lilian who is part of Turva and sent there to spy on him but ends up befriended instead.

There is also a bit more considerations to the long term. Most of the main characters are sort of immortal though still young Fred has only been a vampire for maybe two years but it's nice that they are starting to acknowledge it. 

But mostly everything I liked about the last ones still apply for this one. 

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